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- 14 Apr 2014
Facebook to Provide Mobile Payment Services
Facebook Inc is preparing to join the mobile-payments race with remittances and electronic-money services on the social network, the Financial Times reported, citing several people involved in…
- 5 Jul 2019
Huawei Awards Nigerian Students for Excellence, Launches 2019 ICT Global Competition
Huawei Technologies Company Nigeria Limited held an award ceremony at Sheraton Abuja to celebrate the achievement of some Nigerian students for their remarkable performance at the Huawei Global ICT…
- 16 Jul 2019
LCCI Seeks Active Citizens Involvement in the Evolution of Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has said that the country must be actively involved in the evolution of fourth industrial revolution inorder to benefit from it. Mr. Babatunde Paul…
- 16 Jul 2019
NCC moves to ensure MNOs networks are LTE Compatible
In line with Nigerian Communications Commission’s(NCC) resolve that Nigeria is not left behind in the advancement of new technology in Information and communications technology (ICT) service delivery…
- 17 May 2024
TI-Nigeria Boss Alleges Nigerian Banks Offer Opportunities for Terrorism Tinancing
Awual Rafsanjani, executive director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and head, Transparency International in Nigeria (TI-Nigeria), has accused banks of offering opportunities for…
- 6 Jul 2022
Kenyan Court Freezes Accounts of Flutterwave, Others for Alleged Money Laundering
A Kenyan high court has reportedly frozen the accounts of Futterwave, a Nigerian fintech, among over alleged money laundering. A total of 56 bank accounts holding a whopping Sh7 billion suspected to…
- 16 May 2024
CrediCorp Partners FintechNGR to Drive Consumer Credit Initiative
Nigerian Consumer Credit Corporation (CrediCorp), has partnered Fintech Association of Nigeria (FinTechNGR) to drive consumer credit scheme initiative through a robust payment platform that would be…
- 23 Jan 2016
NITDA Commences Tech Startups Forum in Public Sector
In line with its commitment to turn Nigeria into a technology innovation hub in Africa, the Office for ICT Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIIE), a special purpose vehicle established under…
- 15 Jun 2020
Nigeria Cannot Enforce Tax against Facebook, Others—Expert
Nigeria will find it impossible to place taxes on the transactions of foreign tech companies like Netflix, Facebook, Google, Youtube and other virtual firms without foreign help, Ikemesit Effiong,…
- 7 Dec 2020
FG Moves to Make Fertiliser Subsidy Data-Driven
The federal government has said that it would no longer continue to subsidise fertiliers for brief-case farmers. To this end, the government plans to use technology to identify the real smallholder…
- 27 Nov 2012
Lemo, First Bank, MasterCard Others Nominated for FT Awards
Major financial institutions and electronic card payments have in the country have been nominated for awards at the maiden edition of the Nigerian Financial Technology Awards hosted by…
- 14 Jul 2014
Concerns over Telcos, Data Miners Unsolicited SMSs
Telecommunication operators in Nigeria are washing their hands of unsolicited short messaging services (SMSs), pointing at some unscrupulous foreign data miners, although when you dig deeper,…
- 3 May 2017
Zinox Threatens to Sue Premium Times for Defamation
The management of Zinox Technologies Ltd. has given a seven-day deadline to the publishers of Premium Times, a local online publication to retract series of defamatory publications against the…
- 13 May 2019
NCC Partners Security Agencies, NSA, Others to Combat Cybercrimes
The Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC, said that it was partnering security agencies, the National security Adviser, Mohammed Babagana Monguno, and others towards combating the menace of…
- 14 Jul 2019
Stakeholders to Partner Ministry to Curb Technology Importation
IT experts, relevant stakeholders in the communication ministry and ICT related sectors in the country at the weekend advocated for advancement in the digital future of Nigeria. This is in…
- 23 May 2017
Zinox Sues Premium Times, Demands N2Bn for Defamation
Zinox Technologies Ltd., foremost Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company, has slammed a N2 billion suit on Premium Times, an online news medium, for a series of defamatory…
- 22 Sept 2008
Ecobank Displays Public Offer at Uyo Roadshow
Mr. Offiong Amba, managing director, Ecobank Nigeria Plc, has described the bank’s $2.5billion public offer as the first multi-level structure that comes in three levels: the right issue, offer…
- 7 Feb 2018
Minister, DG NITDA Collaborates on Local Content Policy
Barrister Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu, Minister of Communications, has charged ICT Stakeholders to come up with viable recommendations on how to make the country an export hub for ICT hardware and…
- 22 Feb 2023
NITDA, FIRS Engage Stakeholders, Urge for Prompt Payment of Levy
In order to achieve its mandate of implementing relevant policies, developing and regulating Information Technology for sustainable development, the National Information Technology Development Agency…
- 11 Feb 2018
Stakeholders Seek Patronage of Indigenous Software
Worried by challenges to the development of indigenous software, stakeholders in that space met this week to seek ways to move software ecosystem forward, in order to build a strong software industry…
- 12 Aug 2022
Pantami Confirms Loopholes in IPPIS, TSA, GIFMIS
Professor Isa Pantami, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, yesterday said there were loopholes in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system (IPPIS), Government…
- 15 Jun 2009
Zenith Bank Revolutionizes Mobile Payment with NSDT Tech
Zenith Bank, one of the biggest and most profitable banks in Nigeria has pioneered the deployment of Near Sound Data Transfer (NSDT) technology on its Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), scattered…
- 8 May 2022
NDIC Partners Deposit Insurance Agencies to Address Challenges
Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) says it had embarked on collaboration and cooperation with other deposit insurance agencies globally to address the challenges facing the insurance…
- 1 May 2016
TSA Controversy an Unnecessary Distraction - Obaro
Mr. John Obaro, managing director, Systemspecs, the Information Technology firm that manages the Treasury Single Account (TSA) being implemented by the federal government of Nigeria. Obaro was at…
- 2 Feb 2018
Oduoza, Former UBA Boss Floats Nova Merchant Bank
Phillips Oduoza, quintessential banker and former group managing director of the United Bank for Africa (UBA), has launched Nova Merchant Bank. Nova Merchant Bank has already designed…
- 20 May 2008
ICT Challenges in Postal and Courier Sector
Even with the explosion in information and communications technology, the postal and courier sector has remained undaunted to the argument and submission that the development will erode a larger…
- 16 Nov 2020
Farmcrowdy Marks Four Years of Transforming Lives of more than 300,000 Farmers with Technology
Farmcrowdy Nigeria’s first and leading Agritech company founded in 2016 by 5 young Nigerians led by Onyeka Akumah, with the aim of empowering farmers by connecting them to alternative financing and…
- 7 Nov 2023
NASENI, Agric Ministry Agree to Partner on Agro-Industrialization, Climate Change Mitigation & Others
National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security have commenced discussions on how to deploy existing technical…
- 30 Jun 2008
Security Operatives Seize $2.1Bn Fake eBay Cheques
Security agencies in Nigeria have intercepted counterfeit cheques, lottery tickets and eBay overpayment schemes worth over $2.1billion , Nigeria CommunicationsWeek investigations can reveal. United…
- 9 Oct 2023
Koree Wins $50,000 @ 2023 Ecobank Fintech Challenge
Koree, a Cameroonian fintech, has emerged winner of the Ecobank Fintech, ahead of eight finalists and 1,490 pitches. Koree went home with $50,000 in non-dilutive funding while Wolf Technologies, a…